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A hasty reader might infer from this that Mercurius was _not_ venerated in the Latin West. For contrary indications, see BHL nos. 5933-39. In 768 Arichis II transferred M.'s remains from what was left of Aeclanum into his church of Santa Sophia at Benevento; from that time forward M. was a star in the firmament of Beneventan saints. For the view that Arichis himself was responsible for the expanded Latin version of M.'s Passion see Albert Siegmund, _Die Ueberlieferung der griechischen christlichen Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche bis zum zwoelften Jahrhundert_ (Muenchen-Pasing: Filzer-Verlag, 1949), p. 242.
Best,
John Dillon
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:58:13 -0600
Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Christopher Walter's new book on The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition
>(Ashgate, 2003) gives a fuller account of Mercurius, with an excellent bibliography.
>He is one of the more war-like of the Byzantine warrior saints, far more so than
>most comparable saints venerated in the Latin west.
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